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Ask HN: Is there a symbol for the Hyper key?

4 points by mathieudutour 3 years ago · 3 comments · 1 min read


I was wondering if there is a well-known symbol for the Hyper key? I found used on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard but can't find why it was picked

Edit: Seems like HN doesn't want to render the symbol. I meant to display "BLACK FOUR POINTED STAR" U+2726

pndy 3 years ago

This is the first edit that introduced the "Hyper" button with icon in the article; no comments were provided why it was a black four pointed star in particular. The author added just "(...) + icon". Perhaps it was an arbitrary choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space-cadet_keybo...

compressedgas 3 years ago

I think the association of those stars with the keys is original to the article. I could not find such in any of the cited sources.

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